A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential
mathematical books ever written Euclid's Elements of Geometry is
one of the fountainheads of mathematics—and of culture. Written
around 300 BCE, it has traveled widely across the centuries,
generating countless new ideas and inspiring such figures as Isaac
Newton, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein.
Encounters with Euclid tells the story of this incomparable
mathematical masterpiece, taking readers from its origins in the
ancient world to its continuing influence today. In this lively and
informative book, Benjamin Wardhaugh explains how Euclid’s text
journeyed from antiquity to the Renaissance, introducing some of
the many readers, copyists, and editors who left their mark on the
Elements before handing it on. He shows how some read the book as a
work of philosophy, while others viewed it as a practical guide to
life. He examines the many different contexts in which Euclid's
book and his geometry were put to use, from the Neoplatonic school
at Athens and the artisans' studios of medieval Baghdad to the
Jesuit mission in China and the workshops of Restoration London.
Wardhaugh shows how the Elements inspired ideas in theology, art,
and music, and how the book has acquired new relevance to the
strange geometries of dark matter and curved space. Encounters with
Euclid traces the life and afterlives of one of the most remarkable
works of mathematics ever written, revealing its lasting role in
the timeless search for order and reason in an unruly world.
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